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Reed Second in Indy Supercross
Category: Racing News
Date: 31 Mar 2007
Time: 19:42:15 -0500Comments
L&M Racing’s Chad Reed took the holeshot at the Indianapolis, Ind. round of the 2007 AMA Supercross Series on Mar. 24 and ran away from everyone in the field for 14 laps – except James Stewart. That’s when Reed’s championship rival, trapped back in the pack at the first corner, finally caught the YZ450F rider in a dramatic chase that had nearly 55,000 fans in the RCA Dome on their feet. After some exciting passing action between the two, Stewart squeaked out a narrow 1.6-second lead at the checkers. Yamaha Factory Racing’s Grant Langston, still rebounding from a collar bone, ran third on his own YZ450F before ultimately finishing fourth, his best Supercross result for Yamaha to date. Reed is the only Supercross rider to podium in every race this season – his exact plan to win the title. “Chad is doing everything we talked about including getting the starts and riding hard. But we’re racing against a guy who is riding great,” explained L&M Racing Team Manager Larry Brooks afterwards. “Now it’s getting close to the end and we have to switch gears. It’s race wins we’re after now.” In the Lites East division, Brandon Jesseman flew his Motoworld Racing YZ250F to a third-place podium finish while Yamaha of Troy’s Ryan Morais, aboard another YZ250F, finished fourth to extend his lead to 10 points over Ben Townley with just two races remaining. “Ryan’s strategy will be to gain the most points he can in the next two weeks,” said Jim Perry, Yamaha Factory Racing Team Manager. “But if a win comes his way he’ll take it.”